Starfell chapter sampler

The Monster from Under the Bed

leave . . . Specially after I got you them awfully resistible feet thingamababies , which you never even fanked me for,’ he pointed out with a deep hard-done-by sniff. Oswin was always a bit cross, so Willow ignored this. The ‘thingamababies’ that he referred to were her next-door neighbour Mrs Crone-Barrow’s ancient, rather dead-looking bunny slippers.Willow had made the mistake of muttering one night that her toes were cold, so Oswin had gone next door and prised the prehistoric slippers from the old woman’s sticky, corn-crusted feet with a butter knife. Willow had woken up to the feeling of something warm, wet and icky attached to her feet, followed very closely by the sound of her own screaming when she realised what it was. She still shuddered at the memory. Despite this, there was the faint, very faint , chance Oswin might come in handy on an adventure thought Willow. He was really good at spotting magical ability, as well as detecting lies, and his thick kobold blood allowed him to resist most forms of magic. He was also her only friend, and who would remember to feed him when she was gone?

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